A Cockroach in Miami’s Midst Scarface is both reactionary and alarmist. Oliver Stone’s screenplay slams the Carter administrations chaotic immigration policy, induces immigrant fears, this while blaming communism’s stranglehold …
Ring All the Bells George Bailey becomes a saint at one specific moment in It’s a Wonderful Life. He does many great things before – Bailey helps people afford …
Hole in the Desert The final moments of Casino show old Vegas being torn down. Implosions send once grand buildings to rubble. Sam Rothenstein (Robert De Niro) opines about …
Life Isn’t Like Your Fairy Tales At a lavish banquet, the fascist sociopath Captain Vidal verbally denigrates the rebels. Those at the table agree. Among them, a Catholic priest, …
Never Get Out of the Boat When Martin Sheen and his troops approach a bridge midway through Apocalypse Now, it looks like a Halloween theme park. Fireworks of war …
Elton John Musical Biopic Is A Wild Ride Director Dexter Fletcher, hot off his success with global smash Bohemian Rhapsody, takes an entirely different tact for the inventively surreal …
Hulking Mad Control. Everything in the Ang Lee-directed Hulk concerns control. Emotional control. Government control. A parent’s control. Memory control. It’s an interesting take on the comic book hero, …
Union Faults Before Glory’s climactic charge on a Confederate fort, star Denzel Washington speaks openly to his white superior, played by Matthew Broderick. The discussion turns to what each …
Fireball Island Universal produced Backdraft, a surprise given the Disney-esque tragedy of the intro. It’s near camp. A small child looks on, star-eyed, as his father enters a burning …